Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §868.5720 (Anesthesiology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Tube, Bronchial LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#452 of 1000 · 2,475 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 2,475 reports
- RANK #452 of 1000
- DEATH 5 death-typed
- INJ 169 injury-typed
- MALF 2,297 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2015: 312
- PHOTO Suture
Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Absorbable, Natural (14 report gap)
Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector) sits #452 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,475 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Tube, Bronchial carries 92.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 28.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 6.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-23.5 pp)
- MALF 92.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+28.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Deflation Problem is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer TELEFLEX MEDICAL accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .
Tube, Bronchial in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Gauze/Sponge
Gauze/Sponge, Internal, X-Ray Detectable
2,521 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Non-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
2,520 reports
- Aid, Transfer
Aid, Transfer
2,515 reports
- Suture
Suture, Absorbable, Natural
2,489 reports
- Tube (this)
Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
2,475 reports
- Stylet For Ca…
Stylet For Catheter, Gastro-Urology
2,447 reports
What this shows Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector) carries 2,475 MAUDE reports, ranked #452 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (207) held close to the prior two-year average of 167.
Related Entities for Tube, Bronchial (W/Wo Connector)
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tube, Bronchial: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (2,475 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tube, Bronchial are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Tube, Bronchial; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.